Music Grammys Reward White Mediocrity

Grammys Reward White Mediocrity

Yeah, I’m Making This A Race Thing, ‘Cause How Do You Not At This Point?   A few hours ago, Adele took home the Grammy for Album of the Year for 25, beating out Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Last year, Taylor Swift’s 1989 won over Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The year before that, Beck’s Morning Phase won over another Beyoncé record, …

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Interviews Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Check Out Our Correspondence with the Burgeoning American Band Who are About to Make it Big   Grim Streaker are an up-and-coming, Brooklyn-based quintet whose music occupies the chaotic realm between punk rock, noise and skate anthems. Consisting of lead singer Amelia Bushell, guitarists Daniel Peskin and Micah Weisberg, bassist Bill Dvorak and drummer Piyal …

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52 Films By Women 6. Picture Me: A Model’s Diary, directed by Sara Ziff & Ole Schell

6. Picture Me: A Model’s Diary, directed by Sara Ziff & Ole Schell

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Disappointments in a Raw, Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modelling Industry   We see the images, we see the clothes, and of course we see the models. Oh yes, those models who just seem to embody perfection. But what we never see? The untold story behind the image: what happened that …

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Trump Turnbull vs. Trump

Turnbull vs. Trump

Showing That We’re Just Gonna Have to Get Used to this Bewildering Freefall, Trump Kinda Bullied Our Prime Minister Over the Phone (Seriously)   About a month back, I wrote a piece containing some fairly reactionary hypothetical situations that could arise from a Trump presidency (you can check that it out here, if you’re interested). …

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52 Films By Women 5. Prophet’s Prey, directed by
Amy J. Berg

5. Prophet’s Prey, directed by
Amy J. Berg

Lock Up Your Daughters And Wives (All Of Them…) In Prophet’s Prey   The most affecting stories are often the ones that are true. It’s rare that you’re summoned into a highly secretive cult and in this case, thank the Lord, it’s only through J. Berg’s documentary Prophet’s Prey. The movie is a riveting exposé on …

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YouTube bill wurtz

bill wurtz

YouTube’s Preeminent Absurdist Can be Just as Informative as He is Confounding   Winner of the 2016 Shorty Award (a social media accolade) for Best in Weird, the YouTuber known as bill wurtz has a supremely eclectic and unpredictable approach to his content that is as engaging as it is unique.

Movies Manchester by the Sea/Moonlight

Manchester by the Sea/Moonlight

Which of this Year’s Deserving, Devastating Drama Films Could Walk Away with the Top Honours?   The minorest of SPOILERS applies, regarding the basic premise of each film. No major plot details are discussed but, if you don’t want to know anything at all about either Manchester by the Sea or Moonlight before seeing them, go watch ’em …

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Trump Trump’s Muslim Ban

Trump’s Muslim Ban

Treating People of the Muslim Faith in this Manner Will Not (And Cannot) Make America or the World a Safer Place   This has been said before and said better, by people smarter and funnier than me, but I believe it does bear repeating: the number one recruitment tool needed to galvanise people into mass …

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